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Jane Marcher Foundation at a glance

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Jane Marcher Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$27k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$40kHealth$33kFood & Nutrition$28kHousing & Shelter$20kHuman Services$7kEducation$5kArts & Culture$4kSocial Science$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$581k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUDBONE GROWN$7,500
PATH-HOME$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
PORTLAND BACKPACK$2,500
PEOPLES HEALTH CLINIC$2,000
MOTHER AND CHILD EDUCATION CENTER$1,000
CASA OF DOUGLAS COUNTY$1,000
INNER BEAUTY IN YOU$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ADELANTE MUJERES: $2k → 8%FARMERS ENDING HUNGER: $2k → 14%IN KIND BOXES: $500 → 8%FARMERS ENDING HUNGER: $1k → 14%FARMERS ENDING HUNGER: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MA
OR
CT
CA
MD
AZ
TN
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$86k · 11 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
23

Total granted

$86k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
-1%

Still filing today

36%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • PH
    PATH HOME
    3× · 2022–2024 · $17k · revenue +25%
  • FE
    FARMERS ENDING HUNGER
    3× · 2018–2020 · $4k · revenue +36%
  • GM
    Gather Make Shelter
    2× · 2022–2023 · $3k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • A
    AARC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • MH
    MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +25%
  • OREGON FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -1%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Equitable Giving Circle

Through radical, no-strings-attached giving, EGC disrupts systemic inequality by funding community-led projects, including sustainable food security programs, housing support, and wellness initiatives

Philanthropy
2
Our Village Gardens

Our village gardens brings a spirit of hope to the people by growing and sharing food, learning and teaching skills, and empowering community leadership.(continued on schedule o)our village gardens leverages community organizing, skill…

Food & Nutrition
3
Northwest Mothers Milk Bank

The mission of northwest mother's milk bank is to improve the health and survival of the northwest's most vulnerable infants.

Health
4
Centro Cultural of Washington County

Centro cultural promotes education and economic development, increases cultural consciousness, responds to community needs and celebrates understanding among the diverse groups in our community.

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5
The Manav Foundation
Education
6
Clackamas Service Center

Clackamas service center is an inclusive, "one-stop" community center for individuals and families seeking food relief and resources for improved health, dignity, and stability.

Human Services
7
Outgrowing Hunger

We nurture connections between people,nature,and food by ensuring access to garden space and farmland, and providing education and mentoring on regenerative and sustainable agricultural practices.

Food & Nutrition
8
Health Poverty Action Usa

Health Poverty Action USA acts in solidarity with health workers, activists & communities worldwide to improve health & challenge the causes of poverty. We do this in 3 distinct ways: 1. We approach health as an issue of social justice. We…

International
9
Cultivating Community

To grow food justice in Greater Portland by providing education, resources, and opportunities to cultivate and share culturally familiar food.

Food & Nutrition
10
Port Angeles Food Bank

Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.

Food & Nutrition
11
Portland Esl Scholarship Fund
Philanthropy
12
Northwest Harvest Emm

The organization's mission is growing food justice through collective action. the organization's vision is ending hunger in washington state.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Food Bank; the most unlike its peers is In Kind Boxes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
11/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX C: $30,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX CAARC: $10,000 · OtherAARCPEOPLES HEALTH CLINIC: $8,000 · OtherPEOPLES HEALTH CLINICMUDBONE GROWN: $7,500 · OtherMUDBONE GROWNIndividual grant recipient: $6,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBVM CAPACITY INSTITUTE: $4,500 · OtherOREGON FOOD BANK: $4,500 · OtherMISSION FOOD HUB: $4,000 · OtherFEED'EM FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Other+16 more: $18,650 · Other+16 morePATH HOME: $17,000 · Housing & ShelterPATH HOMECOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyFARMERS ENDING HUNGER: $3,500 · Human ServicesGather Make Shelter: $3,000 · Human ServicesADELANTE MUJERES: $1,500 · Human ServicesRAHAB'S SISTERS: $1,000 · Human ServicesIn Kind Boxes: $500 · Human ServicesMIDDLESEX HOSPITAL: $5,000 · HealthNATUROPATHS WITHOUT BORDERS: $2,500 · HealthTHE NORTHWEST ACADEMY: $2,575 · EducationGlobal Education Center: $2,000 · EducationHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $1,000 · EducationESSEX MEADOWS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EducationTORUS: $500 · EducationPortland Backpack: $2,500 · Food & NutritionKINDNESS FARM: $1,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$97,650Housing & Shelter$17,000Philanthropy$10,000Human Services$9,500Health$7,500Education$7,075Food & Nutrition$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPATH HOME: $17,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIDDLESEX HOSPITAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARMERS ENDING HUNGER: $3,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGather Make Shelter: $3,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NORTHWEST ACADEMY: $2,575 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATUROPATHS WITHOUT BORDERS: $2,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPortland Backpack: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetACTION ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKINDNESS FARM: $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetADELANTE MUJERES: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA FUND FOR WOMEN: $1,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCASA OF DOUGLAS COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMOTHER & CHILD EDUCATION CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAHAB'S SISTERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTORUS: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetIn Kind Boxes: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Oregon Community …Zera Foundation IncThe Autzen FoundationMarie Lamfrom Charita…Sangham FoundationAmerican Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR19.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Zera Foundation Inc · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Sangham Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jane Marcher Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jane Marcher Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Adelante Mujeres: 31% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Gather Make Shelter: 7% of income from government
  • Torus: 6% of income from government
  • Casa of Douglas County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Middlesex Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Jane Marcher Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jane Marcher Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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